Investing in newbies - as new hires.

(Creaky voice) Baaaack when I was starting out... I had neither experience nor education, except my own attempts at self-training by reading "Taber's Medical Encyclopedia," and typing practice from "Norton's Anthology of Poetry." After 3 weeks of mailing resumes to local offices, I had decided to give up on finding an MT job. It looked like no experience, no hire. Then I took part in a transcription "casting call" at a large FP clinic. I tested horribly for speed (12 wpm), got stuck for ages on "pedal edema" (thought "pedal" was pronounced like a bicycle pedal, and could not figure out what the doctor was saying with "peedle."). But the doctor who was part of the hiring team liked my self-taught motivation, and I got the job. Trained from the ground up by a transcriptionist who was kind enough to take me under her wing for several weeks (she got paid for it). And, you know, I stayed at that clinic for nearly 12 years.

If companies would invest in training talented newbies, they would get themselves some good employees who would probably bring more loyalty to the table than many experienced MTs. (Here, I am assuming good intentions on the part of the company, no attempts to get cheap newbie labor.) I've heard about the demise of employee loyalty, but what happened to the concept of companies investing time and effort into their own employees to train them? The company I am working for now trained me for a few hours, and I worked for them for a few weeks. Easy come, easy go. Company #2, from what I can see, offers much more extensive training, and I am making plans already to settle down with them long-term. Coincidence?